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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.
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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
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Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages.
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I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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(A picture of)a naked woman, although she was covering her pubis with her right hand and her breasts with her left. Covering yourself up like that is worse than showing everything,.
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I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind, my wayward heart creates its own misery. Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child, long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.
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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
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